A survey of the effective economic-demographic factors on the fertility of employed women aged15-49 in education organization - Tehran's 22 district

The matter of controlling the births and/or preventing unwanted pregnancies depends mainly on people's level of information. Premature marriages are one of the factors contributing to the increasing of population. The population growth rate in Iran is in average about 3%.of increasing of population. Also this rate is different in cities and villages. Where the information of people on contraceptive devices is high and public institutes such as health centers and so on provide the interested people with various information and devices, the birth rate is lower than where people do not have much information on such issues. The purpose of this study is to explain the influence of economic-demographical factors on the fertility of 15-49 year old women working at education department, district 22. According to the theories of the thinkers who have studied on and theorized in the field of fertility and the factors influencing on that, it gets clear that fertility in Iran is affected by different factors. Findings of this research indicates that education, the number of children, age of husband, and age at the first pregnancy influence on fertility and that factors including age, income, familiarity with contraceptive devices, the intervals between fertilities, and the expenses of children leisure time do not affect the fertility. These findings enumerate the less and no attention toward social, value-related, and cultural conditions dominating on the society atmosphere, and also the economic obstacles against fertility as the effective factors affecting fertility.